Improvement in clearers for spinning-mules



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SEVERIN MOCK, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO LOUIS HALLING.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLEARERS FOR SPINNING-MULES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,218, dated December 29,1874; application filed July 31,1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEVERIN MOCK, of Lit tle Falls, county of Herkimer, State of New York, have invented a Self-Operating Cleaner, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to keep the front face and upper surface of the roller-beam in a selfoperating cotton-spinning mule clear from the accumulations of dust, broken fiber, 850.; also, to keep clear of the same the top of the carriage back of the spindles. This is effected by means of a compound brush, shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a plan, Fig. 2 a front view, and Fig. 3 a view from below, of the brush and its operating devices. A

This brush is composed of three brushes in one. The frame A is a piece of board, along and near one of the short edges of which is inserted a row of bristle brushes perpendicular to the surface of the board. These bristle brushes are shown in Fig. l at B. The surheavy plush, forming the second part Y of the brush. Across the edge of the board, opposite to where the bristles are inserted, is fastened a narrow strip of wood, projecting at each end from the corner of A. To this narrow strip is fastened, along its whole length, a piece of heavy flannel or felt cloth, X. This flannel forms the third part of the compound brush. This compound brush is applied to the rollenbeain as follows: The plush pads are placed against the front face of the rollerbeam, and the bristle brushes extend across and lightly rest upon the upper surface of the same. The brush is sustained in this position by a wire, D, passing through two staples, E E, in the back of A. The wire D is tightly stretched along the face of the roller-beam at a short distance from it. The only supports of the wire are at each end projecting from the face of the roller-beam, so as to allow the brush A to move freely on the wire along its entire length.

The machinery for moving the above-described brush consists of the following parts.

G is a drum revolving upon a perpendicular volving in the opposite direction it does not move the pulley. In a position similar to that of H another perpendicular cylinder, J, of the same size as H, is attached to-the roller-beam, and at about the same distance from the central end of the half-section of the roller-beam. This cylindrical axis J supports another pulley of the same diameter as I. About these pulleys, and supported by them, passes a cord or belt, K. At a certain point in the cord K is attached, by a small ring, Z, a wire, L, bent at right angles, as shown. The other end of L is attached by a swivel to a slide, M, which moves freely upon the arm N. The arm N is fastened firmly to, and projects at right angles from, the lower part of the inner surface of the brush A. Motion is communicated to the cord K from the back cylinder P of the spinning-mule by means of an endless cord or belt, O, passing about the back cylinder, and also about the drum.

The operation of the machinery above described is as follows: The back cylinder of the mule revolves three revolutions in one direction, when the carriage of the mule moves out. These revolutions, by means of the cord 0, revolve the drum G, carrying the pulley I and the cord K, and moving the brush A along the roller-beam. When the carriage of the mule returns to the roller-beam, the back cylinder also makes three revolutions in the opposite direction. The drum also moves in the opposite direction; but by the construction of the gearing with oblique teeth, the drum revolves without revolving the pulley, and c011- sequently communicates no motion to the brush A. The brush A is thus stationary when the carriage returns to the roller-beam. That portion of the carriage back of the spindles, which is expected to be cleaned by the flannel apron, passes, when the carriage re turns to the roller-beam, under and to the rear of the roller-beam sufficiently to cause the apron X, which hangs perpendicularly from the brush A on the front face of the roller-beam, to glide over a space of its own area on the top of the carriage in rear of the spindles. When the carriage moves out again from the roller-beam the apron glides ofl', removing the dust. Thus, by each outward movement of the carriage, the brush A is carried along the roller-beam. When A reaches the end of the half-section of the mule or beam the wire L is carried with the cord about the pulley and returns, carrying the brush by the same movements as before to the other end of the-roller-beam.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the roller-beam and back cylinder of a spinning-mule, of the compound brush A, movable on the wire D, the arm N, the swivel and slide M, the wire L, the ring Z, the cord K, the pulleys I, the cylindrical axes J and H, the drum G, and the cord 0, substantially as described.

, SEVERIN MOOK. WVitnesses:

EUGENE E. SHELDON, A, W. SHEPHERD. 

